These special phone and app features can help protect you from spyware

The article explains how Apple, Meta, and Google provide special security settings designed to reduce exposure to targeted spyware. It outlines what these modes do, how they work, and how users can enable them on phones and apps.

The growing availability of hardened security modes shows major platforms are responding to spyware threats once aimed mainly at high-risk users. These tools may become more mainstream as surveillance software becomes more sophisticated and easier to deploy.

Apple, Meta, and Google offer special security modes that provide your devices more secure against targeted spyware attacks. Here are how those modes work, what they do, and how to switch them on.